Posted by Ed Levine, July 28, 2008 at 6:00 PM
Photograph by Gordon Mark
How much did the serious eaters want to try a Swingle, the frozen chocolate-covered mini-key lime pie on a stick at the Steve's Authentic Key Lime Pie shop? (Can you call a ramshackle hut on a pier a "shop"?) Enough to risk life and limb walking there in a violent, windy, and lightning-laden post-meet-up thunderstorm. And you know what? It was damn well worth it. The spicy tartness of the key lime pie filling, the crunch of the graham cracker crust, and the perfectly balanced bittersweet chocolate, all come together perfectly on the little wooden popsicle stick. Oh yeah, you'll have to take the same risks we did, because the only way to get one of these babies is to head to Red Hook. Steve wholesales the pies but not the swingles.
Steve's Authentic Key Lime Pies
204 Van Dyke Street, Red Hook Brooklyn, NY 11231 (Pier 41; map)
888-450-5463
Posted by Kathy YL Chan, July 25, 2008 at 6:00 PM
After reading Nick's post on J.G.Melon last week, I quickly hustled my toosh over to the UES...need burger ASAP. Conclusion? The burger and cottage fries are delicious indeed, but don't pass up on a slice of Apple Sour Cream Walnut Pie. The generous wedge is served warm and has a buttery crust. Thinly sliced apples and sour cream are slipped between every layer, and the whole thing is topped with plush ribbons of whipped cream, which hides a sweet, crumbly topping—walnut-studded, of course.
J.G. Melon
1291 Third Avenue, New York NY 10021 (at 74th Street; map)
212-744-0585
Posted by Ed Levine, November 14, 2007 at 11:17 AM
A selection of pies and tarts from Trois Pommes Patisserie.
As many of you know I am a pie freak, which in New York is not a bad thing, as New York has quietly become an excellent pie town. Last year some of you might recall I posted about New York's five best pies. It is now time to move beyond my top five pie list in New York, to a place called Pie Heaven.
I have eaten hundreds of pies in Gotham, and I believe that no one should want for a great piece of pie on Thanksgiving. So in honor of Ben Leventhal and the rest of the crew at Eater I give you my current, up-to-the-minute list of fine pie establishments in and around New York. A lot of these places don't allow walk-in pie purchases on either the day before Thanksgiving or on Turkey Day itself, so to avoid extreme Thanksgiving pie disappointment, call now.
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